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On 5/18/20 2:03 AM, Daniel Lindvall via Marxism wrote:
The politics of the ten Beck novels by Sjöwall & Wahlöö tend to become more obvious as the series progresses. If you don’t feel like reading all ten in chronological order, but want to give them one more chance, I suggest you skip to ”The Abominable Man” (the 7th book, published in 1971). You could also search out the film based on this story, ”The Man on the Roof” (1976, directed by Sweden’s greatest director of the second half of the 20th century, Bo Widerberg).
I went through the trouble to have his "Adalen 31" digitized and put on Youtube. From the introduction to the film on my blog:
After a number of false starts, I was finally able to upload Bo Widerberg’s “Adalen 31” to Youtube, a film that I saw when it came out in 1969 and that has lingered in my memory all these years. The title is a reference to a general strike in the Adalen district by paper mill workers in 1931 that led to the first in a series of Social Democratic governments that for many people defined the word socialism. What I took away from the film, besides its stunning artistic power, was the idea that there was a dialectical relationship between revolutionary struggle and reform. If not for the four men and one young girl who were shot down in the village of Lunde on May 14, 1931, it is altogether possible that the modern Scandinavian welfare state never would have been born.
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